[Campaignforrealdemocracy] Fwd: #SpanishRevolution comes to Greece: #M25Gr = #GreekRevolution

[Mark Barrett]

Thanks for the heads up Julien.

I imagine such an event would be bound to attract nationalists and facists
among with lots of others. As I am sure yo know, one principle the DRY
movement in Spain has kept to, along with no alcohol, non violence and the
development of popular assemblies is the banning of flags. These principles
are important to keep to so let's hope they can be consensually followed as
part of a solidarity with the Spanish uprising wherever M15 inspired camps
and assemblies form. Maybe Spaniards should ask other countries to not even
carry Spanish ones (as many did in Athens yesterday, to say thanks) . I
do think we all need  to put out the message of no flags to nip the
nationalist/fascist tendency in the bud. Just a few thoughts anyway and will
mention to comrades in Barca.

There is another Athens report here, which I just saw you also commented on:
http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2011/05/26/598-what-time-is-it-time-for-all-of-them-to-go-tens-of-thousands-take-to-the-greek-streets-against-the-crisis/

Cheers

Mark

On 26 May 2011 16:49, Julien Chaulieu <julien at eagainst.com> wrote:

> I might need to inform you that things are not so bright as you describe
> regarding Greece. There were many fascists-far right nationalists in the
> event of Athens yesterday waving flags and chanting the national anthem
> among with xenophobic slogans, like "Greece belongs to Greeks" and "Our
> anti-Greek politicians should go away". I am Greek I know very well what I
> am saying. I would recommend you to remain standoffish about what you saw in
> Athens yesterday and not make false assumptions as you may spread false news
> around the world.
>
> Regards
>
>
> Mark Barrett wrote:
>
> Athens yesterday:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNGW0x5shuM
>
>    + new article, be great if you can pass on...
>
> #SpanishRevolution comes to Greece: #M25Gr = #GreekRevolution<http://www.indymedia.ie/article/99876>
>
> Yesterday was a beautiful beautiful day and a very very important one. 10
> days after the "Spanish Revolution" kicked off peacefully all over Spain, it
> has been replicated massively in the homeland of Democracy, Greece.
> Yesterdat, M25, 20,000 people took to the streets and squares all over
> Greece... 7,000 alone and absolutely peaceful in Constitution square in
> athens. They have been inspired by Spain and the simple core idea of the
> movement; That we have had enough, that we are "indignant", we will not take
> it any more, its time to stand up, take to the streets, occupy squares,
> create a "true democracy"... and hope that the Spark of peaceful Revoution
> spreads all over this little planet...
>
> Follow the #GREEKREVOLUTION as it unfolds and spreads...
>
> Real democracy Greece - http://real-democracy.gr/
>
> [image: M25 - #greekrevolution]<http://www.indymedia.ie/attachments/may2011/saf.jpg>
> M25 - #greekrevolution
>
>
> *Instaling Democracy 2.0 █████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 10% *
>
> *“Peoples of Europe, Rise Up” *
> In many ways this is almost an echo, a year ago the Greeks hung a massive
> banner from the Acropolis with a simple message: “Peoples of Europe, Rise
> Up”. Over the last year we have seen some responses, In October we saw
> massive strikes in France, we saw the students of London rebel against the
> harsh cuts being imposed at Christmas and in Spain we saw a general strike
> on S29, September 29. But none of this seemed to take off quiet as
> powerfully as that which has unfolded here in Spain over the last 10 days.
> In recent months we have seen the "Arab Spring", which was a massive
> inspiration to the "indignant" in Spain; the idea that it IS POSSIBLE to
> mobilise the masses (especially more so now with social networking tools;
> facebook, twitter etc...) and to absolutely change things PEACEFULLY. The
> movement here in Spain continues to grow and grow, and outside too it has
> sparked in a very quick profound way (650 global events around planet 3 days
> ago) but this response from Greece is something very very special, because
> of the size, because this is all about re-questioning, re-examining,
> re-creating the whole idea that came from Greece so many centuries ago;
> DEMOCRACY.
>
> We have to remember that Greece has seen massive and very violent protests
> for a long time, so there was a fear that yesterdays first day of action
> could lead to the normal stand off between riot police and petrol bomb
> wielding anarchists, thankfully this did not surface, in fact 1 protestors
> message in 1 of the papers is that the government can deal with the
> violence, it doesnt threathen them, but this, this massive peaceful action
> does, they do not know how exactly to deal with it. So hopefully we will see
> these numbers growing, taking to the streets and starting to occupy squares
> to set up little free zones to talk, but also to demonstrate what true
> democracy looks like; a more direct and participative form as opposed to the
> once every four years version we see at present, which has failed us and
> left us in this sorry state of affairs.
>
> *S2S - communication is our weapon *
> Also last night, the second beautiful moment; When we in the occupied
> square of Placa Catalunya in Barcelona, #acampadaBCN (campsite Barcelona)
> connected live with the thousands in the square outside the parliament in
> Athens via live stream (again how great these new tek tools enable us to
> connect, even on this massive scale; S2S : square to square). After the
> massive cheers of greetings from each square of defiance and revolution to
> the other, we had about 5 or 10 minutes of exchange, giving updates on the
> situations and hoped for plans for where we go from here....
>
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